How to Build GIMP 2.8 from Source in Ubuntu 12.04

After many years GIMP 2.8 has finally been officially released! Lots of changes were put into this release and on May 3rd, 2012 we’ve got our official release! Congratulations to everyone involved! Below I’ve published a method for building/compiling GIMP from source in Ubuntu 12.04. I’ve run through this in a 64-bit virtual machine and it worked without any issues. It will likely work using other versions of Ubuntu, I just happen to be using 12.04.

I’ve made the necessary minor changes below in order to to install the official Gimp 2.8 release. Once the packages are available in the Ubuntu repositories, this process becomes unnecessary as GIMP could then simply be installed from the Ubuntu Software Center.

Before compiling make sure that these things are installed

babl

gdk-pixbuf

gegl

glib

gtk

pango

Before proceeding install the below packages as they are dependencies of Gimp 2.8

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